Types of OSPF Networks: Point-to-Point, Broadcast, NBMA, and More
OSPF is a dynamic link-state routing protocol that largely replaced RIP, an older distance-vector protocol, in most enterprise networks. OSPF converges faster and scales to far larger networks than RIP ever could, but part of what makes it powerful is that it doesn’t treat every network link the same way. OSPF classifies the network connected...